Goodreads asked Jennifer Jorski Ebert:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Jennifer Jorski Ebert I got the idea for Going Home to Cedar Falls one day when I was researching newspaper articles. I discovered a woman in the United Kingdom who had accidentally left a stack of 70 black and white photographs, love letters, and poems, on a bus. She had been a socialite and he was a doctor who was training other doctors in Nigeria. In doing more research, I discovered 4 or 5 more articles written before and after the owner of the letters were found. I wondered what that relationship must have been like, how it had started, and what happened after. I hope you love the story of Sal and Lu just as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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